Tom Owen's piece on Yammar attempting to explain his rationale for excluding Level D employees from the discretionary payment was to say the least very poor and an astonishing reflection on CX senior management and their total lack of employee awareness.
He stated ( incorrectly ) that Level D employees received annual increments and this compensated for the non payment of the 13th month. What he failed to add was that Level D office employees have no cap on this increment whereas pilots are capped after 17 years.
So any captain with 17+ years in the LHS was excluded from both the 13th month and incremental increase and so received nothing. His explanation actually contradicts itself unless he plans to pay the 35K to the 100 or so captains who fall in this group. If not then this is discrimination pure and simple and should be challenged in court.
This own goal in one single act of stupidity and greed has alienated every single captain in the company and does not bode well for 2018.
And all this from the director of people.